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POLLOCK , the name of an English family which has contributed many important members to the legal and other professions. David
David
chief
chief
marshal . Of these the more famous were the two last. Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, who rendered valuable military service in India, and especially in Afghanistan in 1841-1843, ended his days as constable of the Tower of London, and was buried in Westminster Abbey; his baronetcy, created in 1872, descended to his son Frederick (d. 1874), who assumed the name of Montagu-Pollock, and so to his heirs. Chief Baron Sir J. Frederick Pollock, who had been senior wrangler at Cam-bridge, and became F.R.S. in 1816, was raised to the bench in 1844, and created a baronet
Cambridge , and Corpus professor of jurisprudence at Oxford (1883-1903), and the second son, Walter Herries Pollock (b. r85o), being a well-known author and editor of the Saturday Review from 1883 to 1894. The chief baron's third son, George Frederick Pollock (b. 1821), became a master of the Supreme Court in 1851, and succeeded his brother as queen's (king's) remembrancer in 1886; among his sons were Dr W. Rivers Pollock (1859-1909), Ernest Murry Pollock, K.C. (b. 1861), and the Rt. Rev. Bertram
Wellington College from 1893 till 1910. The chief baron's fourth son, Sir Charles Edward
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